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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Update 14 July 2007: I have preferred to use Blogger to host my photos rather than third party photo host like Photobucket because of doubts regarding the long term stability of Photobucket, but they have recently been confirmed to be taken over on On May 30, 2007 by Fox Interactive Media, a News Corporation subsidiary at a price rumoured to be as high as $250 million US. So Photobucket is now backed by a big and financially stable corporation and I no longer have that reluctance to use Photobucket to host photos for my blogs. Using that may be easier than the convoluted steps outlined below:

For New Blogger, this is what you have to do. Upload your photo to a post which if you don't want it to be on the main page, pre-date it to 2005 or something, or even in a blog created specially to host pictures (Blogger does not limit the number of blogs you can create). I upload this photo as an example:

Click on the picture (or the caption) to get an enlarged version of the photo. In the method describe previously, you will use the URL in the address bar of this page. Don't. It wouldn't work now. You can try it yourself if you want. Try putting that URL into the Photo URL in the EDIT PROFILE page and confirm for yourself that it can't be done. You will get the error message "Cannot find file at specified URL: link is broken (failed request)" and if you have already put in your profile photo, that will remain as this attempt will fail to replace it. You can also try putting that photo into the sidebar using "Add a Page Element" in the Layout, choosing "Picture" in the pop-up, and putting that URL in "Configure Image" page. You will get the error message "Please specify an image". Putting that URL int the <img src="photo URL"> tag will also not display a photo.

Instead, in the page containing the enlarged photo, in the menu bar, click VIEW > PAGE SOURCE to get the source code for the page. In this case, the source code is as given in the scroll box below:

And almost at the end of the codes, you will see src="http://1h6.google.com/.....I have to put the full URL in a scroll box, otherwise the long unbroken URL will extend into the right sidebar (FireFox) or cause the sidebar to slide to the bottom of the page:

The photo can be used to promote tourism to Malaysia. 2007 is Visit Malaysia Year, and many programs have been planned for visitors and this will be a good year to visit Malaysia. For more information, see Guide to Malaysia.

37 comments:

Is there an alternative for, "How to make your picture as a background" too? I tried this method (http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/2006/04/how-to-make-picture-as-background.html) but it doesn't seem to work.

Thanks Peter... Now that I have converted all of my blogs to my google account, they all share the same profile. I did this accidentally (forgetting that I had one blog set up on a seperate Google account previously). Is there a way to get it all back? Or at least to have individual profiles for each blog?

If the gmail account you mentioned is listed as the original owner, you are probably stuck as original pwner can't be removed. The only way if you are really determined is to start a new blog and transfer the posts manually.

Thank you. I wasted a lot of time trying to follow the standard directions. With your help I got it up and running on the first try. Later I'll implement your additional suggestion to create a separate blog just to store and source my photos. For now, at least, I understand the process.

Something has changed. They must have changed the way they host photos. Previously, you can never delete the photos from the web, even if you delete the post, you delete the photo, etc in your post editor. The picture remains on the web. Now you can delete the post, and the picture disappear from the web. Also, you can't take the URL directly from the address bar of the photo as before. You must view source, then get the actual URL of the photo from the HTML.

But THIS doesn't work anymore either, Peter. Check it out yourself through view and source.

I DID solve the problem with posting photos in the sidebar though. If you want more than just a photo (so f.e. with a link or other html) in your sidebar, click add a page element, then click add a photo, then add and publish it. Then, on your blog, look up the real address by right clicking your mouse and clicking on properties.

Then use that address when adding a photo + html in your sidebar through "add html".

So: first you add a picture, then you copy the address and then you use it in your html.

can you tell me how to manipulate the html regarding the size of the header. I shortened my title description and i lost a good bit of the background picture as a result...how can i increase the size of the header so that the whole picture shows??

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I have been pulling my hair out for quite a while, trying to figure out how to get my photo in my profile. It worked the first time after I read this post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!

I know you probably get a ton of posts for help...and unfortunatly I'm one of them. I can't get any answers from blogger.com.

I followed your directions and I still have the same problem but different from what you have described. I receive no error message. I hit Save Profile and it looks like it does but when it reloads the exact same picture and html is in the box...as if I did nothing?!??!

Have you heard of this and do you know what to do about it? Any help would be MUCH appreicated! Thanks!

Peter aka Enviromanhttp://enviromansays.blogspot.com(floods in England, polar ice and ice caps at moutain peaks melting, I think more severe and frequent hurricanes in US, rain when it is supposed to be a dry season in my country, someone from Queensland recently contacted me if I noticed the weather changing. I replied when I was young I had to sleep under the blanket, but now I sleep topless. If I remembered, he said it is freezing in tropical Queensland and now he has to sleep under a blanket. Please folks, take good care of our one and only Spaceship Earth which have no lifeboat. It may not affect us severely now, but it has every chance of severely affecting our future generations. Then they will have lots to be "thankful to us).

Hey Peter- I scanned a onto a CD, a floppy disk and onto the computer(my files/my pictures). I'm certain that I've saved it as a jpeg but the image will not transfer onto my blog profile(I'd like to have an accompanying image when I visit hosts).I've attempted this via the standard blog templates and photobucket. Any simplified suggestions?Thank you.

Did you do it as the post instructed? If so there should be no problem. Even if you do the old method (direct from address bar of the webpage of the photo, I think I tried that once and it worked again. Not sure). If you uploaded it to Photobucket, there should be no problem. Upload it to a blog post (specially created blog or a backdated post in your present blog which you can delete later) or email me (via sidebar of my blog) and attach the photo and I will test it out.

Not exactly what is your problem. If you are referring to how to get to open the source page, you should see VIEW in the menu bar of any browser.

If you are referring to the actual source page, once you click VIEW > PAGE SOURCE in the menu bar, the source page will open a a new window.

If you are still not clear, perhaps comment again and either describe your difficulties a little bit more (that would be helpful) or just say you still don't understand me and I will see what I can do after I finish all the tasks that has datelines plus the other things I promise other bloggers to do.

Remind me if I forget by making a comment.

Peter (Blog*Star)What a grateful blogger did for me(no one should feel obligated. Everthing completely voluntary. However, by doing so, you may also help your visitors find helpful information and help. You may even pick up various ways of linking sites there too)

Forgot, it will be good to copy-paste the URL of the post where you made a comment into a Notepad file and save it into a "to do" folder. That is what I do when I want to check if there is a respond to a comment I make in other's blog.

Hi Peter,How do you upload an image to your profile? I'd like to have a small image when I leave a comment on others' blogs. I tried to upload it with my image on computer and flickr account. I got the error message - invalid image URL. Could you help? Thanks.

Hi Peter,I just posted a question earlier and realized that I probably didn't make myself really clear. I followed your instruction - opend one of the images on my blog and got the image source URL and pasted it to the web:URL in my user profile edit. I still got the error message. What could be the problem? Thanks.

Peter Blog*StarWhat a grateful blogger did for me(no one should feel obligated. Everything completely voluntary. However, by doing so, you may also help your visitors find helpful information and help. You may even pick up various ways of linking sites there too)

Alright, I've tried the 1st way you suggested didn't work. Now I'm on to try and use the "View" and "Image Location" Method, but I'm not sure where the side bar is on my blogger edit. Please help. Thank you.